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Introduction
The Tsunami Shelter Challenge is a CI-TEAM demonstration project designed to increase the use of Cyberinfrastructure at low-income, rural middle schools in Oregon.
Technology for Teachers
The teachers involved in this project will learn CAD (computer aided design) using IronCAD, computational modeling and visualization techniques along with web page design, and video teleconferencing skills. The CAD skills they learn will be broadly applicable to engineering design, middle school math/geometry, and physical and earth sciences.
Students
The middle school students will design and test a tsunami shelter using computational modeling and visualization. The task will be to design a shelter that will withstand the forces that occurred in the Indian Ocean Tsunami and the storm surge produced by Hurricane Katrina. Student teams are responsible for investigating and designing the shelter, running the simulations, documenting the results, modifying their structure, and repeating the simulation until the shelter is able to withstand both disasters. They will then use web technology to communicate their results to tsunami researchers and other schools.
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Tsunami Shelter Expo
The capstone will be the construction of physical models of the students’ shelters for testing at the NEES Tsunami Wave Basin during the week of April
27 - May 1, 2007. Students will have the opportunity to see firsthand how their computational models accurately predicted what happens in an experimental lab, as well as observing the fundamental role that CI plays at the TWB.
The Tsunami Shelter Challenge is supported in part by the CI-TEAM program
of the Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science
Foundation under Award Number OCI-0636286. Support for the Technology for Teachers:
Tsunami Shelter Challenge project is provided by the
Symantec Foundation. Additional funding is provided by
Oregon Sea Grant.
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